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This is a public service reminder. We are approaching what is known as Holy Week. For the next week, in churches everywhere, there will be an unusual number of public services. There will be public services on Palm Sunday. There will be public services on Maundy Thursday. There will be public services on Good Friday […]

I know that many of you also receive my weekly newsletter, Finding Words in Hard Times. Or you follow me on Facebook or Linkedin. So you may have read last week’s newsletter already. Some of you are only here (which is fine). So I thought it worthwhile to point you to that newsletter issue. It […]

From Rich Dixon: +++ A dream is a story waiting to be written. It was the opening line of the book I wrote about our journey. We thought it was a one-time thing; God had a bigger idea. Apparently 1500 miles was just a chapter in this story, so the obvious question becomes, “What’s next?” […]

“You aren’t going to leave me, are you?” When you are getting to know someone too good to be true, you have questions.  You acknowledge their greatness. You ask them for help. You acknowledge your weakness. Then, after all that, as you are starting to relax a bit, you are suddenly seized with fear. What […]

Jesus says that we are to ask God to forgive our debts as we forgive our debtors. Unless, of course, he says that we are to ask God to forgive our trespasses. That used to be the clear way to distinguish between low church and high church, by whether we say “debts” or “trespasses”. And, […]